Battery FEA Engineer

Socket.dev; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple is seeking an experienced FEA Engineer to influence the design, qualification, and manufacturing of battery systems powering its devices. You will build and validate models that drive reliability, safety, and performance while supporting rapid development cycles.

Responsibilities include nonlinear constitutive modeling, high-speed event analysis, and coupled multiphysics simulations. Collaboration with hardware, test, and software teams is essential for model validation and optimization.

Qualifications

• MS degree in Mechanical Engineering, Computational Mechanics, Applied Mechanics, Materials Science, Applied Physics, or similar.
• Experience with commercial finite element analysis software such as Abaqus.
• Experience with advanced simulation techniques such as nonlinear constitutive modeling and modeling of high speed events and large deformations.
• Experience programming in Python.
• Experience building, debugging, and calibrating finite element models.

Responsibilities

• Develop and validate finite element models for battery systems used in Apple devices.
• Perform simulations to inform design decisions for reliability, safety, and performance.
• Work with cross-functional teams to integrate FEA results into product development.
• Validate models against experimental data and coordinate physical tests for material characterization.

Skills

Python

High-performance computing

Education

MS in Mechanical Engineering or related

Tools

Abaqus

LS-DYNA

ANSYS

COMSOL

Job description

Apple's Battery Engineering team is seeking an experienced FEA Engineer to play a critical role in the design, qualification, and manufacturing of battery systems that power Apple's portable electronic devices. In this position, your models and simulations will directly inform design decisions for nearly every battery Apple ships, impacting reliability, safety, manufacturing processes, and performance across the product portfolio.

Description

In this role, your work will directly influence the design and performance of battery systems in products used by hundreds of millions of people worldwide. You will be at the center of Apple's battery innovation engine, enabling faster development cycles, improved product safety and reliability, and breakthrough performance.

Minimum Qualifications

• MS degree in Mechanical Engineering, Computational Mechanics, Applied Mechanics, Materials Science, Applied Physics, or similar
• Experience with commercial finite element analysis software such as Abaqus
• Experience with advanced simulation techniques such as nonlinear constitutive modeling and modeling of high speed events and large deformations
• Experience programming in Python
• Experience building, debugging, and calibrating finite element models

Preferred Qualifications

• PhD and 10+ years relevant industry experience
• Experience with coupled thermal-mechanical or electrochemical-mechanical modeling
• Experience with LS-DYNA, ANSYS, or COMSOL
• Exposure to physics-based machine learning methods for surrogate modeling or model order reduction
• Custom solver development or user-defined material model implementation experience
• Industry experience in battery mechanics, electrochemistry, or energy storage systems
• Experience validating complex models against experimental data
• Experience designing and executing physical tests for material characterization or model validation
• Familiarity with high-performance computing (HPC) environments and version-controlled software development workflows